Resort Seeks Students For Snow Theme Park
It may be a match made on the hill.
Ski officials at Mount Spokane Ski Resort are soliciting the help of students at Mount Spokane High to help them develop a snow theme park.
Resort general manager Kirk Duncan said he is working with the high school to build a program that would allow students to earn class credit for work at the resort.
Duncan said there may also be an opportunity for more advanced students who are skiers and snowboarders to teach courses to beginners.
The resort is planning to construct a 200-by-200-foot snow theme park for intermediate and advanced snowboarders and skiers.
For more information, call the Mount Spokane Ski Resort at 238-2220.
Meadow Ridge kids save dough
Meadow Ridge Elementary School students began saving for their futures when they made deposits to their new Washington Mutual School Savings accounts this week.
The school has teamed with Washington Mutual in a program that teaches kids how to save and manage their money.
“It’s important for children to learn how to manage their money at an early age,” said D’Anna McCall, the school savings coordinator at Washington Mutual’s Northpointe Financial Center.
“Washington Mutual’s School Savings program helps children learn by using their own savings accounts,” she said.
During weekly bank days, students will be able to open school savings accounts with as little as 25 cents. Each week, kids can make a deposit to their savings.
Parent volunteers serve as tellers, using Macintosh computers to track deposits and print receipts, while helping children practice their math as they total their balances.
There are no service fees for school savings accounts which, earn a competitive rate of interest and are federally insured.
Washington Mutual estimates that more than 25,000 children participate in school savings programs in more than 200 schools.
Astronaut candidate conducts classes
Dr. Yvonne Cagle, a NASA astronaut candidate, conducted two nationally televised math and science classes from the Educational Service District 101 office at 910 N. Ash.
Cagle appeared on Young Astronauts I and II, elementary math-science courses televised to students nationwide over ESD 101’s STEP/Star Network, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
She is a physician who graduated medical school from the University of Washington. She joined NASA last year.
Cagle will qualify for selection as a mission specialist on a Space Shuttle flight following two years of successful training and evaluation.
During the program, she discussed her career as a physician, her budding career as an astronaut, and the preparatory steps young people must take to follow similar career paths.
The Young Astronauts programs are two of the 19 courses produced by STEP/Star for K-12 and adult audiences nationwide. All of the network’s live, interactive courses are produced in Spokane.
Rats!
Fifth and sixth graders at Dynamic Christian Academy and fifth graders at St. Aloysius School have started a five week study of four laboratory rats.
Two rats are placed in the experimental group and are deprived of all milk products. The control group receives food from all food groups.
The students weigh and measure the rats comparing the differences in growth, appearance, and behavior between the two groups.
The goal is to see how important it is to eat from all the food groups, while learning that it is never too late to change diet habits, said St. Aloysius teacher Kristy Masteller.
Becky Truiit, a teacher at Dynamic Christian Academy, said students will take full responsibility in caring for the rats and will be given the opportunity to adopt them for pets after the experiment is over.
The Washington State Dairy Council co-sponsors the program with many schools throughout the state.
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